Southwest Airlines Corporation Southwest Airlines was incorporated in Texas and commenced Customer Service on June 18, 1971, with three Boeing 737 aircraft serving three Texas cities - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Today, Southwest operates more than 500 Boeing 737 aircraft between 67 cities. Southwest topped the monthly domestic originating passenger rankings for the first time in May 2003. Yearend results for 2008 marked Southwest’s 36th consecutive year of profitability. Southwest
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Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies 1 Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies Sharia Hendeson Professor Rebecca Letellier Business 499 December 2, 2012 Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies 2 Bank of America and NationsBank The renamed to Bank of America combined assets of $570 billion. To protect against perceived to be monopoly dangers
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Boeing has been traditionally Ryanair’s main supplier, however, there are reports that “Ryanir is interested in Comac’s planned C919 aircraft, which is being developed to rival the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320, the dominant players in the commercial aircraft market” (Milmo, 2011, online). Comac, Chinese jet manufacturer, is attracting Ryanair’s interest due to grater amounts of seats within its planes, as well as increased level of efficiency associated with energy consumption (Cliff et al, 2011)
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES STRENGTHS 1. Military Friendly- In 2014 Southwest has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers for the fifth Consecutive year. Criteria for the survey included a benchmark score across key programs and policies such as the strength of company military recruiting efforts, the percentage of new hires with prior military service, retention programs, and company policies on National Guard and Reserve service. 2. Keen eye to Acquisition- Southwest acquired
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1. Southwest’s Strategy and its Business Focus Southwest’s strategy involves: providing low airfares, short haul, point to point flight, only using Boeing 737, no international flights, one class seating, no meals or movies on flights, and fast turn around times for airplanes. Additionally, Southwest prides itself on delivering positively outrageous customer service (O’Reilly & Pfeffer, 1995). In fact, if Southwest were asked the question, “what business are we in” its most
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others. Until today, the Japan Airlines Flight 123 in 1985 is the single-aircraft disaster with the highest number of fatalities. In this crash, all 15 crew members, 505 out of 509 passengers died and resulting in a total of 520 deaths on board a Boeing 747. The aircraft suffered an explosive decompression from an incorrectly repaired doubler plates causing the aft pressure bulkhead to fail, which failed in mid flight and destroyed most of its vertical stabilizer, and severed all of the hydraulic
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Global Production, Outsourcing, and Logistics Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: Building the Boeing 787 INTRODUCTION STRATEGY, PRODUCTION AND LOGISTICS WHERE TO PRODUCE Country Factors Management Focus: Philips in China Technological Factors Product Factors Locating Production Facilities THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOREIGN FACTORIES Management Focus: Hewlett Packard in Singapore OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION: MAKE-OR-BUY DECISIONS The Advantages
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8.5 - Term Paper Assignment Submission Historic Air Disasters Richard DeWayne Gwinn Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract My paper will cover some of the most horrific air disasters in aviation history. I will be using information from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and news media to draw my conclusion of the events. I will then explain how these air disasters changed aviation, what rules were put in place, what changes to aircraft
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supply chain and human resource. Like most capital intensive industries, Boeings management exercises a high degree of control over the schedule of the 767 program and works tirelessly to adhere to the defined schedule. This over dependence on schedules may be observed through the number of meeting each manager attends to ensure that production schedule and the fact that mangers fear delays more than budget overrun (Haaz, Boeing 767 from concept to production). This form of management control may be
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Alaska Airlines Marketing Strategy Alaskan Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the US, ranking at number ten. It is based in Washington, using Tacoma international Airport in Seattle as a hub. Alaska Airlines is a major carrier on the US mainland, in Canada, Mexico and Hawaii. It has codeshare agreements with several big players in the market like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, KLM and Korean Airlines. Alaska Airlines is one of the few carries that retained profits even during the recession
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